(to which Nash appended the footnote
*The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known
as a three-alarmer. Pooh.
)
This is probably Nash's best known poem, and for good reason. Not only does
he provide a wonderfully quotable mnemonic, he goes on to extend it with an
almost Carrollian piece of whimsy, carrying the progression through to its
logical conclusion (why *isn't* there a three-l lllama anyway?). And the
footnote is a delightful piece of icing on the cake, there being something
so Nashian about the pun that I have to wonder whether it was part of the
poem all along.
-martin
[Afterthought]
'llama' would, of course, be pronounced 'yama' in the original Spanish, though
it has been quite thoroughly Anglicised by now.

> This is probably Nash's best known poem, and for good reason. Not only does> he provide a wonderfully quotable mnemonic, he goes on to extend it with an

Without wishing to knock the poem in any way, which is quitefunny, I would just point out that it is not really a mnemonic as itdoesn't provide a way to remember which is L and which is LL. Inthe poem "beast" and "priest" could be swapped over and its stillequally memorable.

on 8/22/02 10:13 PM, Martin Julian DeMello at wrote:> [Afterthought]>> 'llama' would, of course, be pronounced 'yama' in the original Spanish, though> it has been quite thoroughly Anglicised by now.>

Dear Martin:

Love the poems, and this one (Nash) is one of my favorites, too. But llamais actually a Quechua (or Kechua i.e. Andean indiginous) word that mostlikely was pronounced as it is spelled, given that, as far as I can find outlate on a Friday night, it is pronounced in Spanish as it is in English(i.e. lama). Etymology from Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary 2nd ed.,pronunciation from a Professor of Spanish at U Conn, Stamford.

Llama *is* pronounced "yama" in general in South American Spanish except for Argentinian Spanish where the "ll" consonant is pronounced "zzh", thus llama is said "zzhama". To be more pedantic, in parts of Spain it would be pronounced "Lyama", the "L" sliding into the open-mouthed "ya" sound. (More than you wanted to know, I bet, but it is a good example of how consonants vary in Spanish while the vowels are rock solid. In contrast, vowel pronunciations vary widely in English.)

Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy Parker's humorous dictum, Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses:

A girl who is bespectacled She may not get her nectacled But safety pins and bassinets Await the girl who fassinets.

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940's, with Noel Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra.

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Thanks very much for sharing this unique poem by Ogden Nash. I tried to translated it into Chinese with a similar wordplay. However, something poetic must have been lost in translation, just as poet Frost put it.Here is my translation in Chinese FYI if any of you understand Chinese at all. Sorry my own notes are in Chinese only at the moment.僧侣喇嘛颂奥格登•纳什曾有一人修成僧道曾有二口人僧侣修成堕畜道我敢赌个誓：阿弥陀佛方今弗曾有三人仿佛是僧便成佛**作者自注：作者注意力让一种所谓一炮三响的气焰给吸引住了。呸。

In similar vein to the L(l(l))ama poem is the following, also by Mr Nash:

The Camel has a single hump,The Dromedary two.Or else the other way around.I'm never sure - are you?

This is a work of absolute comic genius, in that it begins very earnestly and promisingly (if incorrectly) and collapses into a state of providing no useful information whatever, right OR wrong. This is my favourite of all Ogden Nash's poems.

The poem reminds me for some reason of:

"The Common Cormorant, or ShagLays eggs inside a paper bag.The reason you will see, no doubt:It is to keep the lightning out.But what these unobservant birdsHave failed to notice is that herdsOf wandering Bears may come with bunsAnd steal the bags to hold the crumbs."

which, while not by Nash, shares the other poem's rapid descent from apparent seriousness into anarchic lunacy.

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